Agents, Plugins, and AgentCore: AWS Has an AI Naming Problem
From Last Week In AWS Podcast by Corey Quinn
February 23, 2026 · 7 min · Episode 709
About this episode
Corey Quinn discusses the latest AWS updates and features, including AI naming issues and cost management strategies.
AWS Morning Brief for the week of February 23rd, with Corey Quinn. Links: Amazon Bedrock expands support for AWS PrivateLink AWS CloudWatch Alarm Mute Rules eliminate alert fatigue Amazon EC2 supports nested virtualization on virtual Amazon EC2 instances Announcing Amazon DocumentDB long-term support (LTS) on 5.0 AWS Certificate Manager updates default certificate validity to comply with new guidelines Claude Sonnet 4.6 now available in Amazon Bedrock Kiro is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions Amazon EC2 Hpc8a Instances powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors are now available Introducing VPC encryption controls: Enforce encryption in transit within and across VPCs in a Region Migrating from AWS App Runner to Amazon ECS Express Mode Introducing Agent Plugins for AWS Build unified intelligence with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Reduce unexpected AWS costs: Tracing AWS billing charges with log correlation techniques
People in this episode
Host: Corey Quinn
Topics covered
- AWS updates
- AI in AWS
- Cloud services
- Cost management
- Virtualization
- Encryption
Keywords
- AWS
- Amazon Bedrock
- CloudWatch
- EC2
- encryption
- cost management
- virtualization
- AgentCore
- AI
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: AWS
Products: Amazon Bedrock, AWS PrivateLink, Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon EC2, Amazon DocumentDB, AWS Certificate Manager, Claude Sonnet 4.6, Kiro, Amazon EC2 Hpc8a Instances, VPC encryption controls
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